On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>
> Linus, please pull from [the linus branch at]:
>
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git linus
Hmm. This has a number of commits that have a questionable sign-off
history (I complained about the same thing for the networking code).
Namely you cannot follow the path from "author" -> "committer" through the
sign-offs.
The reason seems to be that you are using some automatic service for your
hg/git gateway, and your committer information gets corrupted by that.
Please don't do this. I realize that Sign-offs don't always exist for the
whole path - we do take one-liners or otherwise known-ok patches from
sources without the sign-off of the author (ie not the normal (a) case for
the initial sign-off) - but the *normal* case should be that the whole
path from author->committer should be covered.
There is absolutely zero value in an automated "committer" field. Please
fix your hg gateway to not do this kind of crap.
Linus
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